Agisoft Metashape
Photogrammetry software that turns photos and LiDAR into measurable point clouds, meshes and orthomosaics. Perpetual licence, no subscription.
All 3D Tools
41 tools cataloged. Browse by category:
3D Modeling Digital Sculpting Retopology Texturing and Materials Rendering 3D Scanning and Photogrammetry Format Conversion 3D Viewers Slicers (3D Printing) CAD Engine Plugins Asset Marketplaces AI 3D Generation
Alpha3D
Cloud image and text to 3D with a mandatory cleanup pass, three polygon density tiers and quad output from the Basic plan upward.
Assimp
A C++ library that reads 40 plus 3D formats into one common scene structure. A developer dependency, not an application.
Autodesk Fusion
Cloud-connected CAD, CAM, CAE and PCB in one subscription, strongest on integrated manufacturing and weakest on air-gapped or very large assemblies.
Autodesk Maya
Subscription 3D animation, modeling and simulation suite, and the long-standing studio default for character rigging.
AutoRemesher
Free, MIT licensed automatic quad remesher with a desktop app and a headless CLI, revived in 2026 after six years of dormancy.
Backflip AI
Turns 3D scans and STL meshes into editable parametric CAD with a feature tree, as a Fusion add-in or a web app.
Bambu Studio
Free slicer built around Bambu Lab printers, with AMS multi-material painting, automatic flow calibration and remote print monitoring.
Blender
Free and open source 3D creation suite covering modeling, sculpting, texturing, animation and rendering.
CAD Exchanger
Desktop app and SDK that read, heal and convert over 30 CAD and mesh formats. A translator, not an authoring tool.
CSM (Common Sense Machines)
Image, sketch and text to 3D generator. Alphabet acquired the company in January 2026 and the service is no longer reachable.
F3D
A fast, minimalist 3D viewer with no menus. Command line, hotkeys and file manager thumbnails, reading over 30 formats.
FreeCAD
Open source parametric CAD built on the OpenCASCADE B-Rep kernel, with a full Python API and workbenches for mechanical design, BIM, FEM and CAM.
Godot Engine
MIT-licensed open source engine with a node and scene architecture, a purpose-built 2D pipeline and a Vulkan Forward+ 3D renderer.
Google model-viewer
A web component that puts an interactive glTF model and an AR button on a page with one HTML tag. Reads glTF and GLB only.
Hi3D
Image and text to 3D built around printing: watertight output, face counts up to 2 million, and 3MF export that carries colour regions into a slicer.
Hunyuan3D
Tencent's AI 3D generator with open weights for self hosting and a commercial cloud API, strongest on hard surface geometry.
Kaedim
Managed 2D to 3D asset production for studios, where AI generates the base mesh and in-house artists retopologise it before delivery.
MeshLab
Open source system for processing and editing 3D triangular meshes, widely used for scan cleanup, repair and format conversion.
Meshy
AI 3D model generator that turns text prompts or images into textured, riggable meshes in about a minute.
Neural4D
Text, image and sketch to 3D generator with a free tier, mesh quality presets, part splitting and export aimed at both game engines and 3D printing.
Online 3D Viewer
Free, open source browser viewer that opens STEP, STL, OBJ, glTF and 15 more formats locally, with nothing uploaded to any server.
Onshape
Browser-only parametric CAD on the Parasolid kernel, with built-in version control and branching, and a free tier where every document is public.
Polycam
Phone-based 3D scanning using LiDAR, photogrammetry and Gaussian splats, with CAD-ready floor plans on the paid tiers.
PrusaSlicer
Free open source C++ slicer for FFF and resin printers, with paint-on supports, organic supports and native STEP import.
Quad Remesher
Automatic quad retopology plugin for 3ds Max, Maya, Blender, Modo, Houdini and Fusion 360, written by the author of ZBrush's ZRemesher.
RealityScan
Epic Games photogrammetry suite, formerly RealityCapture, free below USD 1M revenue and built for merging photos with laser and SLAM scans.
Rodin (Hyper3D)
Deemos' AI 3D generator focused on high resolution quad geometry and PBR textures from text or multi image input.
Sketchfab
The web's default 3D portfolio and embeddable viewer. Its store closed in 2024 and the platform changed hands again in 2026.
Sloyd
Parametric 3D asset generator with triangle targets, a quad or triangle toggle and a print mode that enforces watertight geometry.
SOLIDWORKS
The Windows-only mechanical CAD standard, unmatched on sheet metal and drawings, sold through resellers with capabilities gated hard across three tiers.
SPAR3D
Stability AI's two-stage image to 3D model with built-in triangle and quad remeshing. Free under a revenue threshold, and dormant since May 2025.
Spline
Browser 3D design tool for interactive web scenes, with AI generation that runs third-party models such as Hunyuan3D, Trellis 2 and Meshy.
Tinkercad
Autodesk's free browser modeller for beginners and classrooms, built from primitive solids, with a one-way bridge into Fusion and no STEP support at all.
TopoGun
Standalone manual retopology and map baking application built to hold million-polygon reference meshes that make general 3D software crawl.
TRELLIS
Microsoft's open MIT-licensed image and text to 3D model. Exports GLB with PBR textures, and takes a simplify parameter to cut the face count.
Tripo
AI 3D workspace by VAST that generates textured, riggable models from text, images or sketches in seconds.
TripoSR
Open MIT-licensed single-image to 3D model from VAST AI and Stability AI. Runs locally, exports OBJ or GLB, and bakes colour into vertices rather than textures.
UltiMaker Cura
Free open source slicer that turns 3D models into G-code for FFF printers, with over 400 settings and profiles for hundreds of machines.
Unity
Cross-platform real-time engine for games, XR and industrial applications, with C# scripting and deployment to console, mobile and web.
Unreal Engine
Epic's real-time 3D engine built around Nanite virtualised geometry and Lumen dynamic lighting, used for AAA games, virtual production and archviz.